Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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With precision into space
2024/11/06
Rapid team from TU Darmstadt successfully participates in rocket competition
The university group TU Darmstadt Space Technology e.V. (TUDSaT e.V.) made an extraordinary debut with its rocket ‘FRoDO-M’ in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) competition. At the event, which brought together student teams from across Europe in Ponte de Sor, Portugal, the Darmstadt group secured third place among 26 participating teams in the ‘Three kilometres with a commercial rocket motor’ category with its precise flight performance.
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Unite! Metacampus
2024/11/05
How to use
The Unite! Metacampus is designed for the realisation of courses and lectures within the framework of Unite! in which several Unite! partners work together collaboratively. It enables collaboration in a single system with simple and exclusive access for all Unite! members. A video explains how to get started with the Unite! federated digital learning management system (LMS).
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Well-being at Work
2024/11/05
Discover Unite!'s Best Practices Guide
Download the best practices and explore a comprehensive guide to improving work-life quality across the Unite! Alliance, offering inspiration and actionable examples from our nine universities.
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Successful concepts with biomaterials ryon Summer School under the motto ‘From idea to start-up’
2024/11/04
The 2nd ryon Start-Up Summer School took place in Darmstadt in October 2024. Participants had the opportunity to take a look into the future of synthetic biology. Over five varied days, the international participants learnt a lot about business models and how to develop a business model from an idea into a professional pitch deck in just a few days. This year's event focussed on the topic of biomaterials in the context of the ‘CoM2Life’ cluster project, which is in the running for a top cluster in the renowned Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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Unite! Network for Inclusion
2024/10/31
Acommon repository available for all the Unite! community
All the exhausting work done by the Virtual Inclusion Office these past years related to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) is now compiled and can be consulted in one platform accessible on Metacampus called “Unite! Network for Inclusion”. By housing these comprehensive resources, this common repository helps drive a coordinated and informed approach to inclusion and diversity across the Unite! alliance. This plays a critical role in fostering a more inclusive environment by offering a wide range of resources designed to promote best practices in diversity and inclusion.
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Secure messaging through distributed messages
2024/10/30
TU researchers enable better protection for sending sensitive information
In today's digital landscape, ensuring the privacy of online communications is more critical than ever, especially in professions that rely on confidentiality, such as law or politics. Two research groups from the Profile Topic Cybersecurity and Privacy at TU Darmstadt have developed EMC² (Encrypted Multi-Channel Communication), a method that enhances the security of sensitive messages by distributing trust across several existing communication channels. The team's approach addresses the limitations of current encryption solutions, introduces a tool that makes secure communication more accessible, and shows the ineffectiveness of government-mandated backdoors.
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Early detection makes batteries safer
2024/10/30
TU Darmstadt and MIT develop methods for monitoring with machine learning
The safe use of lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles and stationary energy storage systems, critically depends on condition monitoring and early fault detection. Failures in individual battery cells can lead to serious issues, including fires. To mitigate these risks, researchers at TU Darmstadt and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed novel methods for battery analysis and monitoring that leverage physically constrained machine learning approaches.
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Robots find their way through crowds
2024/10/29
TU Darmstadt and University of Sheffield present study at international conference
Robots can navigate efficiently through crowds of people by cleverly alternating between independent and cooperative behavior, and in such a way that they disturb the people around them as little as possible. This is the result of a study by TU Professor Roderich Groß.
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Microrobots for drug transport
2024/10/28
LOEWE Start Professorship: Anna C. Bakenecker receives two million euros
Dr Anna C. Bakenecker has been awarded a LOEWE Start Professorship at TU Darmstadt. The expert in medical physics is working on the development, control and monitoring of nano- and microrobots that are designed to transport drugs to their target sites in the body. The LOEWE research funding programme of the state of Hesse is providing around two million euros over a period of six years.
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Teaching at large scale seminar
2024/10/24
Unite! workshop
We invite you to participate in a workshop on Zoom on the 19 and 25 November between 13.00 and 15.00 (CET), to discuss and share ideas about organizing and managing large classes across various disciplines and universities.
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Unite! virtual language tandems!
2024/10/24
Register via the Metacampus space between October 10th and 30th, 2024.
Improve your speaking skills in Spanish, Catalan, German, Italian, French, Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish, or English with another student from the Unite! community, discover their culture, and expand your international network. Register via the Metacampus space for virtual language tandems between October 10th and 30th, 2024.
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AI expertise for innovative DataHub Europe project
2024/10/23
Platform enables safe and data protection-compliant use of AI in business and science
The Technical University of Darmstadt and the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence hessian.AI are playing a key role in the development of DataHub Europe, a new platform for the secure use and provision of data for training AI models. This platform, which was presented by Schwarz Digits and Deutsche Bahn AG at the German government's 2024 “Digital-Gipfel”, helps companies to efficiently implement specific solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) in a manner that complies with data protection regulations.
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Study without worries
2024/10/23
TU and Santander award ten scholarships independent of grades
Together with Santander Universities, TU Darmstadt is giving away the “2,000 € TU Darmstadt Sorgenfrei Scholarship” for the first time. The application is open to all students, regardless of grade, who are enrolled at TU Darmstadt. The application period runs from October 23, 2024 to November 27, 2024, 11 p.m.
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“Let's shape the future together”
2024/10/18
6th RMU Day on 27 November 2024 at the Gutenberg Campus Mainz
The Presidents of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) cordially invite you to the 6th RMU Day. This year, the Rhine-Main Universities Day will focus on the RMU’s joint proposal as a consortium in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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Harnessing the strengths of two worlds
2024/10/15
Biotechnologist Andrea Belluati to lead new Emmy Noether group
A fascinating fusion of two worlds: A new Emmy Noether research group at TU Darmstadt focuses on hybrid systems that combine artificial and living cells to achieve functions that neither can perform alone. Biotechnologist Andrea Belluati is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with 1.8 million euros for his project “Polymer Incorporation for the Engineering of Symbiosis” over the next six years. The newly designed hybrid systems might come to task in more effective drug delivery or sustainable biofuel production.